Re: some more certificate usages.

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

   At 20:01 2/27/96, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
   
   >"I am the legitimate receiver of mail sent to this rfc822 email
   >address.  [this might need to be signed by a key which itself had been
   >certified by the appropriate "DNS name owner" certificate]."
   
   I don't understand what purpose this serves, unless you're talking about
   access permission to a POP server.  

That's one use - a valid one - but not the one which I intended.

If I am sure of someone's email address, don't know their public key,
and want to send them encrypted mail, I see some way to certify a
binding between a public key and an email address as a necessary part
(but not necessarily the only part) of solving the key-lookup problem.

                                        - Bill




-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBMTTUS1pj/0M1dMJ/AQEH5gP9HrMOr1NZNddQVYwB5Req8EvAb/WBp5/p
QjQKcJ6oa1TumvdOrw761s3pYV+OoeuhS2Wd4ql7m6BD6F72H4l8/ENwdFPUjVx8
hMsfwW8T0KuHoeE8Fety4MlDDzOr2KSJKJ1pJgSvgoERzrZMttxQRpgVnGDnt9WP
aDUnaunIhmE=
=c7i8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

---

References:

• Re: some more certificate usages.
• From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)

---

• Prev by Date: Re: going back to stone axes
• Next by Date: Re: Specification Languages
• Prev by thread: Re: some more certificate usages.
• Next by thread: Re: proposed certificate format
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread